Re: keeping files from one version to the other.
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:43:03AM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote:
> > > and the user would be insane to request it... perhaps you should install
> > > them to doc/crafty/examples, and use postinst to check if they should be
> > > upgraded? if so, mv them to the proper location in /var.
> > >
> > > same thing is done for ppp's provider peer/chatscript files.
> >
> > But that's a policy violation (13.3)
>
> No it isn't. They are being treated as "configuration files".
Nothing in doc/ can be tagged as configuration files, as far as I know.
> Please read that section again.
Did you? 13.3 isn't the config file policy, it's the /usr/share/doc
policy. I interpret the last paragraph as forbidding what he was saying,
provided a postinst script qualifies as "any program".
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